Well considering 50% of the military either joined to
a) gain citizenship
b) feed their kids
c) get out of college debt
you can see it's not a DRAFT per se, but it might as well be.
Not that logic has any effect on you. Go troll somewhere else.

im not gonna say anymore but you are an ignorant child, not everyone can afford to go to college buddy, people need money and some people actaully like the life provided to them by the US government so they support it. seriously go fuck yourself...i dont care if you dont support the war but support the men dying over their againt their will.

You're kidding me right? Who the hell would sponsor a 5 year old who can ski down a groomer?
- (e)heath...he even hates on 5 year old girls

dont lick a toad. cause then ur licking every toad that toads been with-marsland10

Dude, seriously there isn't much to say to you besides grow the fuck up. First of all, I would guess that maybe 5% of the people in the military have actually seen combat, much less killed someone. Second, it isn't fucking murder if the other person is shooting right back at you. Yes, the military makes mistakes and kills people sometimes that are probably innocent, but that doesn't mean they're all murderers. You are so incredibly ignorant you make me sick.

As someone stated before, there is a difference between supporting American troops and supporting the reason for them being somewhere.

I think virtually everyone in the States supports the troops, with the exception of maybe some crazy hermits who want to dissolve the government and let anarchy reign. However, a lot of people, around 48% last I heard, dont support the United States being in Iraq.

There is a difference between supporting troops and supporting a war. Go demonstrate to your senators and politicians if you want real change.

im shocked you people are more concerned about our troops feelings then the lives of innocent iraqis, i dont get it. they sigend up to go kill, and you people respect that!?!?! why not respect someone who fucking creates, respect doctors,respect artists,respect writers not fucking 20 yr old assholes who cant do anything other then join the army!

If you're so passionate why don't you go join the Jihad with your brothers and become a Martyr? You think trolling a ski forum is going to help? I'll be here waiting, inshallah.

Go post some pictures of your courageous freedom fighter brothers driving truck bombs into markets and killing 400 civilians. Or bombing their own mosques, or beheading firemen and police.

Nobody uses uranium rounds anymore. We're not fighting other tanks here. But the insurgency is using chlorine cylinders against civilians, nail bombs, and would be using mustard if they were smart enough. Go grab an AK and join the fight, the world won't miss you.

Despite what you have seen in such glorified movies as Full Metal Jacket and Starship Troopers, people dont sign up for the military to kill people. Its easy to dream that up, but no, wrong. For a lot of lower income families, its the only way to pay for college and get job training for something other than pumping gas for the rest of their lives.

And I actually agree with you on that last point. Every American citizen contributes in some way to our nation (except lawyers), and that should be equally respectable. But with the exception of EMT's, not many people go to work each day and see someones head blown apart. Its a rough job. Again, if people actually separated supporting troops from supporting the war, controversies over this shit would end.

dude they strap bombs to their children first of all. and second i know a lot of people who have gone to iraq MARINES and they said that the worst thing they had ever had to do in their lives was shoot someone. NO ONE over there wants to kill, you obviously dont know anyone who has been there if you think they WANT to kill people.

You're kidding me right? Who the hell would sponsor a 5 year old who can ski down a groomer?
- (e)heath...he even hates on 5 year old girls

dont lick a toad. cause then ur licking every toad that toads been with-marsland10

hahaha, im getting a kick out of the kids in here that think they know somthing. yes the support our troops its the right thing to do. but all the kids that are in the united states and are argueing that are troops are bad, then leave. actually most of you kids that are argueing are proably still in middle school cause it seems like you dont know much, they are here to protect our country, i dont agree with the war in iraq, but our country still needs our troops

-previously marsland10-

people will like you for your threads.
-DDrem

Allahu Akbar is a shortened form of the Arabic phrase Allahu Akbar min kulli shay', which means "God is greater than everything."
...bitches

by pissing off thousands of insane muslims our military is not making us safer. say some radical muslim see his little sister blown in 3 pieces from an american grenade? do ya think maybe he might be a tad more inspired to go blow himself up as a martyr? or maybe cut off an americans head? think people

How about some facts other than spouting off?
Do you actually think we are killing more civilians than the insurgency? You're sorely mistaken. There are truck bombs suni vs shi'a, shi'a vs suni, every day, against innocent civilians. Hundreds of innocents a day, and this is iraqis killing iraqis. The US is sitting by and just trying to defuse the situation by getting them to stop executing eachother. If we kill someone, it is completely by accident, and we pay the families for the loss. It's not a cure, but we DO care and we are only trying to bring stability.
But believe what you want.

I'm brainwashed, even though I'm sitting here right now?
My information is first hand, yours is from fox news. get over yourself.